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On Tuesday, Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, delivered a speech via video link at the G20 Summit in Asheville, North Carolina, making a number of predictions about the impact of artificial intelligence and robotics on global productivity.
In terms of AI capability development, Musk said that it is expected that by the end of 2027, artificial intelligence will independently complete all digital field work, completely replacing various digital positions that are directly operated by humans.
In terms of short-term technological breakthroughs, he predicts that in the next 12 to 18 months, AI will achieve leap-forward improvements in capabilities in engineering and various digital fields;
Among them, AI's programming capabilities will reach "Stockfish level" as soon as next year. By then, just as professional chess software can steadily crush top human chess players, human developers will completely lose their competitive advantage with AI in the field of software development.
At the same time, Musk also pointed out the core hidden danger behind the rapid development of AI-power supply shortage.
With AI chip production growing at a high rate of 40% to 50% every year, the demand for computing power consumption continues to surge. He predicts that there will be a power gap of at least 15 gigawatts in the global AI chip field in 2027, and power supply may become a key shortcoming restricting the development of the AI industry.
Musk made a quantitative estimate of the economic value of AI. He said that AI will significantly increase the scale of the global economy, with an overall growth rate of 20% to 30%, corresponding to an annual economic increment of US$20 trillion to US$30 trillion for the world.
He emphasized that the productivity-improving effect of AI has already appeared and will continue to strengthen, and robotics will bring about a leap-forward breakthrough in productivity.
It is worth mentioning that Musk is the most optimistic about the humanoid robot track and gave a very disruptive prediction.
He believes that in the next ten years, the number of humanoid robots in the world will exceed 1 billion, and the production efficiency of a single humanoid robot will be at least five times that of ordinary humans. Overall, the total productivity of these 1 billion humanoid robots will exceed the total productivity of all humans in the world.
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